Underwriter Financial Lines

AXA Group; Lombardia; In loco; EUR 35.000 - 55.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

An established industry player is seeking a Junior Underwriter to join their dynamic team in Milan. In this role, you will engage with a diverse range of clients, providing tailored underwriting services, particularly in Professional Indemnity and cyber products. You will be responsible for analyzing risks, negotiating terms with brokers, and ensuring the profitability of your portfolio. This position offers a unique opportunity to grow your career in a supportive environment that values innovation and collaboration. Join a forward-thinking company committed to sustainability and inclusivity, where your contributions will make a significant impact.

Servizi

Flexible working arrangements

Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits

Robust support for diversity and inclusion

Volunteering and charitable giving programs

Competenze

• Knowledge of insurance market dynamics and trends.
• Experience in underwriting, especially Professional Indemnity.

Mansioni

• Underwrite Professional Indemnity and cyber products.
• Develop relationships with brokers and clients.
• Monitor portfolio performance and identify business opportunities.

Conoscenze

Industry knowledge

Experience in insurance

Communication in English and Italian

Relationship management

Negotiation techniques

Analytical thinking

Teamwork

Creative thinking

Formazione

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Descrizione del lavoro

Junior Underwriter IFL

Milan, Italy

Joining AXA XL as an Underwriter IFL you will have the opportunity to work with a wide range of clients to provide an innovative and bespoke underwriting service.

In your underwriting role you will be part of the UW Financial Lines team, focusing on Professional Indemnity and cyber products. You will be responsible for writing new and renewal business for an allocated range of clients across the book, working with brokers and clients in support of the profitable growth of a portfolio in line with the agreed Business Plan, as well as developing high quality levels of relationships with brokers, clients and internal functions.

This is a regulated role under the Central Bank of Ireland’s Fitness and Probity regime.

WHAT you’ll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Underwriting Professional Indemnity and cyber products with a specific focus on Professional Indemnity: reviewing submissions including applications, policy wording, inspection reports, loss runs, and financial reports while conducting appropriate risk analysis (including financial analysis) to determine the degree of risk for each account, while ensuring profitability.
• Proactively advising, assisting, servicing and following up with brokers on insurance and risk management matters to ensure satisfaction and fulfillment of their insurance requirements.
• Developing relationships with stakeholders to ensure that business needs are achieved. Negotiating premiums, terms and conditions with brokers.
• Monitoring client portfolio performance; identifying strength and weaknesses and seeking, identifying and developing opportunities for profitable business with new and existing customers.
• Controlling timely implementation of new and renewed accounts according to quality standards.
• Supporting the business planning and forecasting process; monitoring financial exposure within outlined limits; monitoring premium income to ensure it remains within set limits.

You will report to the Product Leader Underwriting PI/Cyber

WHAT you will BRING

We’re looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Industry knowledge and awareness of factors affecting this market
• Few years of experience in insurance sector will be highly evaluated
• Able to communicate and work in English and Italian
• Curiosity and willingness to learn and start the professional journey to become Underwriter
• Relationship Skills: manage relationship with other parties involved, understand stakeholders’ needs and identifies points of agreement.
• Selling and negotiation techniques: adapt to the customer's situation, needs and behavior. Explores different alternatives and influence the other parties to reach an agreement with win-win solutions.
• Analytical thinking: performing fact and data-based analyses of situations or issues. Make swift and efficient data-based decisions and keep the focus on goals over time.
• Teamwork: collaborate with colleagues of different seniorities and expertise to achieve collective goals.
• Appreciate and propose new and creative ideas, taking practical considerations into account.

Who WE are

AXA XL, the P&C and specialty risk division of AXA, is known for solving complex risks. For mid-sized companies, multinationals and even some inspirational individuals we don’t just provide re/insurance, we reinvent it.

How? By combining a comprehensive and efficient capital platform, data-driven insights, leading technology, and the best talent in an agile and inclusive workspace, empowered to deliver top client service across all our lines of business − property, casualty, professional, financial lines and specialty.

With an innovative and flexible approach to risk solutions, we partner with those who move the world forward.

Learn more at axaxl.com

What we OFFER

Inclusion

AXA XL is committed to equal employment opportunity and will consider applicants regardless of gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity and origins, marital status, religion, disability, or any other protected characteristic. At AXA XL, we know that an inclusive culture and enables business growth and is critical to our success. That’s why we have made a strategic commitment to attract, develop, advance and retain the most inclusive workforce possible, and create a culture where everyone can bring their full selves to work and reach their highest potential. It’s about helping one another — and our business — to move forward and succeed.

• Five Business Resource Groups focused on gender, LGBTQ+, ethnicity and origins, disability and inclusion with 20 Chapters around the globe.
• Robust support for Flexible Working Arrangements
• Enhanced family-friendly leave benefits
• Named to the Diversity Best Practices Index
• Signatory to the UK Women in Finance Charter

Learn more at axaxl.com/about-us/inclusion-and-diversity. AXA XL is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Total Rewards

AXA XL’s Reward program is designed to take care of what matters most to you, covering the full picture of your health, wellbeing, lifestyle and financial security. It provides competitive compensation and personalized, inclusive benefits that evolve as you do.

We’re committed to rewarding your contribution for the long term, so you can be your best self today and look forward to the future with confidence.

Sustainability

At AXA XL, Sustainability is integral to our business strategy. In an ever-changing world, AXA XL protects what matters most for our clients and communities. We know that sustainability is at the root of a more resilient future. Our 2023-26 Sustainability strategy, called “Roots of resilience”, focuses on protecting natural ecosystems, addressing climate change, and embedding sustainable practices across our operations.

Our Pillars:

• Valuing nature: How we impact nature affects how nature impacts us. Resilient ecosystems - the foundation of a sustainable planet and society – are essential to our future. We’re committed to protecting and restoring nature – from mangrove forests to the bees in our backyard – by increasing biodiversity awareness and inspiring clients and colleagues to put nature at the heart of their plans.
• Addressing climate change: The effects of a changing climate are far-reaching and significant. Unpredictable weather, increasing temperatures, and rising sea levels cause both social inequalities and environmental disruption. We're building a net zero strategy, developing insurance products and services, and mobilizing to advance thought leadership and investment in societal-led solutions.
• Integrating ESG: All companies have a role to play in building a more resilient future. Incorporating ESG considerations into our internal processes and practices builds resilience from the roots of our business. We’re training our colleagues, engaging our external partners, and evolving our sustainability governance and reporting.
• AXA Hearts in Action: We have established volunteering and charitable giving programs to help colleagues support causes that matter most to them, known as AXA XL’s “Hearts in Action” programs. These include our Matching Gifts program, Volunteering Leave, and our annual volunteering day – the Global Day of Giving.

For more information, please see axaxl.com/sustainability.